The History Behind Tower Of Stone Publishing/Ascap  (T.O.S.) Tower Of Stone Publishing started in 1987 and was originally a production company started by Stonewall "Stoneman" Towery.  Stoneman created the company in order to build his own recording facilities and begin to produce original music in many genre's. During its years as a production company, Stoneman began to hone his skills as a producer while he toured with a local gospel band called the Rhema band.  During that time Stoneman taught himself how to play instruments and how to use recording hardware.  His first studio equipment was anchored by the legendary Tasman 244 Portastudio.  It was a big machine that recorded only 4 tracks on cassette tapes.  Stoneman added a variety of hardware and rack mount gear in order to make the recordings as good as possible considering the inferior gear.  He was heralded by many Publishing Companies and artists for the great demo's he produced in his semi-pro studio. In 1988, Stoneman was awarded his first publishing contract by a small company in Georgia (Mimic Music/ascap) for four gospel songs Stoneman had produced and recorded in his studio.  Although it was a landmark accomplishment, the songs were never commercially released.  Never the less, Stoneman continued to forge ahead until the release of the Rhema Band Album "Lead'm To The Gateway" in 1992.   The album was marginally successful and thousands were sold at the bands concerts  and peformance venues. In 1994 Stoneman was hired by the Franchesa Group to manage their two Publishing companies Andrew Kingman Publishing/BMI and Almaden Valley Publishing/ASCAP.  As the general manager he increased their catalogs by 80% and improved the quality of their songs by signing quality songwriters to Publishing Deals.  His tenure ended with the companies in 1996. It was then that he changed the name of his production company to  Tower Of Stone Publishing and affiliated with ASCAP.  It was also then that he upgraded his hardware to almost all digital applications and began to explore the new and exciting world of "software recording".  During this time Tower Of Stone Publishing began to license Stoneman's music to various cable television programs and local artists who needed original material for their recordings. Since then Tower Of Stone Publishing has published 36 songs in 9 musical genres.  The latest being Stonemans current Gosple Cd "I Stop And Pray".  Other recent releases are Stoneman, Destiny In Stone (2004) and Stoneman Avenue (2006) Tower Of Stone is now beginning to sign new songwriters and mentor new artists from all over the world.  2007 will see the release of two more Stoneman CD's on T.O.S.'s new label "Heads Up Records" as well as the release of several CD's by some of Stoneman's up and coming artists. Since the early days Stoneman's music has won many awards and international contests including The Unisong International Songwriting Contest, Song Of The Year and the Billboard Songwriting contest.  He has received awards for 14 songs in 5 musical genre's. Also, Stoneman went back to college and earned certificates in Cmmercial Music and Recording arts.  He now has a fully digital studio dubbed "One Man Band Productions" and uses all the latest recording softwares including Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Reason, Cubase, Magic, Acid, Abelton and a host of other recording softwares.  In addition to this, he is proficient in Sound Forge, Izotope Ozone, Fruity Loops, N-Track and Harbal. Tower Of Stone Publishing:  Award winning music from award winning songwriters!